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Linux Mint a PITA to install on Win 11
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this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2025
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Personally I just installed Mint instead of Windows. If you back up your important files to an external drive, then what's the harm? Even if you need to go back to Windows, that's just another USB flash drive setup.
That's great if you're in the mindset of "just wipe and reload it's not a problem" But most people who aren't chronic computer users aren't like that. Spending 2+ hours resetting up their computer to be just like it was isn't fun to most people.
Whaaaaaaaat!?! Nonsense! Sacrilege! I love spending 8 hours at a time reconfiguring neovim from scratch to get full LSP support and 20 millisecond start-up times! Who wouldn't love doing that!?!!!??!!?! (/hj)
Edit: half-joking (/hj), not sarcastic (/s).
Why do you need the "/s"? We are real people! It's a really bad insult to us, you know?
You're right, I wasn't really being sarcastic. Configuring neovim (or really anything) for exceedingly long times is fun!
I spent time yesterday writing a start command to initiate Copilot then exit in Vim, run it periodically, just to satisfy our corporate requirement of Copilot usage. It was really fun, and a nice way to give them a "fuck you".